The possible role of extensional faults in localizing magmatic activity: A crustal model for the Campanian Volcanic Zone (Eastern Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy)

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 168, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 471-484

  Milia, A ^a   Torrente, M M ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMPI FLEGREI; DEEP WELLS; EXTENSIONAL FAULTS; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULT SYSTEM; GEOCHEMICAL DATA; GEOLOGICAL SECTION; IGNIMBRITES; LATE QUATERNARY; MAGMA RESERVOIRS; MAGMATIC ACTIVITY; NORMAL FAULTS; SEISMIC REFLECTORS; SHALLOW RESERVOIRS; STRATIGRAPHIC ARCHITECTURE; TYRRHENIAN SEA; VOLCANIC ZONE;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; SEDIMENTATION; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBSIDENCE; VOLCANOES;

TECTONICS;

DETACHMENT FAULT; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; MAGMATISM; NORMAL FAULT; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY; SEISMOTECTONICS; SUBSIDENCE;

CAMPANIA [ITALY]; CAMPI FLEGREI; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NAPOLI [CAMPANIA]; TYRRHENIAN SEA;

EID: 79952259910     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492010-121     Document Type: Article

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